Arthur Ciaramicoli

It's like dropping a needle on an album.

Instead of playing all 22 records, you pick the needle up.

You don't let it go on and on and on.

This is what I always do.

And instead of just letting it roll on and roll on and letting your thoughts have a life of its own,

you begin to be more thoughtful and aware of what you're thinking so that you can intercede in those old conditioned ways of perceiving.

Well, when we're sleeping and when we first wake up, our temperature is the lowest it is all day.

And we've been fasting, so we don't have the nutrients to make the brain chemicals we need to think accurately.

That's why people, when I say, when you wake up in the morning, get up and start moving.

I'm a fan of teaching people to exercise first thing in the morning, for instance, because you find...

that you start to produce more energy, you produce more calming neurochemicals, you get some food that produces the nutrients that your brain can turn into the right neurochemicals to think accurately.

So when we're just sitting there in a kind of dull state, yes, your thoughts can easily go into a negative place.

That's why I depress people.

The worst time for them is when they wake up in the morning.

But again, when you're waking up in the middle of the night, yes,

If you're just going to lay there and reminisce about all the negative things that have happened in your life, it is better to get up.

Maybe have a little something to eat and go back to bed.

You just don't want to make it a habit, though, because then your brain gets conditioned to waking up at the same time over and over again, and you don't want to lose an hour of sleep every night.

Well, because it's emotional learning, Mike.

It's not something that we can rationally easily change.